Adam Savage Built a Busted C-3PO for His Chewbacca to Carry Around Cloud City

Good cosplay takes work, something the people over at Tested know well. And good cosplay can also capture a moment from an iconic work and show it a new light. That's exactly what Adam Savage did when he built out Chewbacca and C-3PO together, running away together in Cloud City.

Using himself as Chewbacca, Savage is essentially giving himself a backpack in terms of 3PO. "It'll never be the thing that you think is going to kick your ass that kicks your ass," he says in the video, when trying to figure out how to carry all that extra weight. He shortens the frame of his backpack for perfect customization. He also adds a stand to hold the kinda-British android, meaning that while in Chewbacca attire he can just clip into 3PO before the stormtroopers ransack the town above Bespin.

There's also an animatronic aspect to his C-3PO, which is pretty cool. But still, the coolest reimagining of C-3PO lately has to be the airplane.

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